"We're continuing to suffer from the very bad decisions President Trump made to pull out of the JCPOA," Biden told reporters at a press conference at the G20 in Rome, using the acronym for the formal name of the nuclear agreement -- the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The Iran nuclear deal was abandoned by the US under the Trump administration and talks to resurrect the deal in Vienna were suspended in late June after six rounds between Iran, China, Germany, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and -- indirectly -- the United States. The Biden administration has pledged to reenter the deal, but the President's negotiators have been faced with tough talks and decisions on how to do so. The leaders said afterward they are "convinced that it is possible to quickly reach and implement an understanding on return to full compliance" of the Iran nuclear deal. The meeting came two days after the US imposed new sanctions on Iran related to its drone program and less than a week after Tehran announced it would return to nuclear talks in Vienna with following a four-month hiatus.

Source: CNN October 31, 2021 20:17 UTC